Bottle-sealing machine.



A. CALLESON.

BOTTLE SEALING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED mums, 191s.

Patented May 12, 1914,

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APPLICATION IILBD FEB. 25, 1913. 1,096,527, Patented May 12, 1914.

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BOTTLE SEALING MACHINE. APPLIOAT'ION FILED PEB. 25,'1913.

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BOTTLE SBALING MACHINE.

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BOTTLE SBALING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED PEB. 25, 191s.

Patented May 12, 1914.

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BOTTLE-SEALING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Original application filed August 24, 1912, Serial No. 716,828.

Patented May 12, 1914.

Divided and this application filed February 25, 1913. Serial No. 750,518.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Anios CALLEsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Sealing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in certain improvements in bottle sealing machines or the like ot' the kind in which the bottles are advanced one after the other and, while being advanced, are successively operated upon by a moving sealing means which is caused to downwardly approach and thus come intio sealing relation to the bottles, thereupon move with-the bottles while the same are advanced and, the sealing being completed, rise preparatory to repeating this cycle of movement, and it has for itsobject to increase the general eiiciency of sealing machines in general and that type of such machines which is above pointed out in particular and to simplify the construction, reduce the cost of manufacture, and make the machine as far as possible independent of attention and skill of the operator.

In the accompanying dra-wings, Figure 1 is a substantially central vertical sectional view of the improved machine; Fig. l is a detail view in section illustrating the means for adjusting a certain structure 18; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a certain pedestal or pillar forming a part of the frame of the machine, and Fig. 3 a plan view of said pillar; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the table of the machine and certain parts thereon, certain other parts appearing in horizontal section; Figs. 5 and 6 are front and plan views of the carrier, and Fig. 7 a side elevation of a block attached thereto; Figs.'8, 9 and 10 are front, plan and sectional (on line Fig. 8) views, respectively, of the lower part of the hereinbefore-named structure 18, Figs. 8 and 10 showing also certain accessories connected therewith; Fig. 11 is a front elevation, part-ly in section, of the main power transmitting mechanism; Fig. 12 is a plan view of Fig. 11, with a certain cover plate removed; Fig. 13 is a plan of the head g,"

Fig. 14 is a plan of a lever 8 and Fig. l5 a plan and front elevation of its jaw; Fig. 16 illustrates the two bearing studs of said lever; Fig. 17 is a front elevation of the machine; and, Fig. 18 a vertical sectional view ot' the sealing means.

The frame of the machine comprises a base a; a cylindrical pillar or pedestal b having its lower and reduced end c fitted into a circular opening Z formed by the internal flange e on the base, an external flange f on the pillar resting on said flange e and being suitably secured thereto; and a head g resting on the pillar or pedestal and having a downwardly projecting iange z, fitted into the same. The base a has an upstanding circular flange or bearing z' surrounding and suitably spaced from the pillar b, and, also surrounding the pillar and having the groove j in its under side receiving the flange or bearing a', is a rotary turret c provided at regular intervals with elastic bottle rests Z, and having affixed thereto a ring m formed with radial projections n whereby the bottles standing on said bottle rest are kept upright as they are advanced by the turret.

o is a table secured upon the base a and having a 'circular opening p to receive the turret lc, Whose bottle supporting surface is flush with the top surface of the table. The

bottles A are placed one after the other on i the table at the right of the turret in Fig. 4 and by the means there shown in said figure (which means, fully described in the application of which the present application is a division, constitutes no part of the present invention) they are progressively advanced onto the turret which, being rotated, b v means to be described, conveys them around the front of the machine, whereupon, having been meanwhile sealed, they are wiped off of the turret onto the part of the table at the left of the turret in Fig. 4 by the upstanding wall q shown in said figure.

Pillai' b afords exteriorly thereof a bearing for a cylindrical carrier 7' capable of oscillatory movement on said pillar as an axis and also of vertical movement. Fixed by screw; or otherwise to the front upper portion of this carrier is a block s (Figs. 5 to 7) having the stud t projecting inwardly therefrom through a hole n which it snugly fits) in the carrier and also through an opening o (Fig. 2) in the pillar, which opening is large enough to permit the carrier to have the vertical and oscillatory movements above mentioned.

In a suitable bearing w at the lower end of the pillar b .is steppeda rotary shaft m,

journaled near its upper end in the head g. From this shaft, through a pinion y thereon, a transmission pinion e journaled at the foot of the pillar, and an internal gear 2 on the turret lc, the turret is kept rotating continuously. From the same shaft, the carrier is oscillated and vertically reciprocated, thus: Fixed on the shaft m is a cam 3 having a peripheral camway 4 receiving a roller 5 journaled on the stud'. t.l Inv the rotation of the ycam the carrier will obviously receive up and down movements. The block s of v the carrier has an upstanding stud 6 which is received and slides in the jaw 7 of a yoke or lever 8 fulcrumed on a stud 9 on the head g of the frame, said head having' an up-v wardly open recess in which the lever is housed, and on the studs 10, 10 projecting I shaft w lever 8 is oscillated, such movement thereof being transmitted through the stud 6 to the carrier. rlihe oscillatory and vertically reciprocatory movements thus imparted to the carrier are so timed that each verti- Cal impulse is followed by an oscillating impulse, so that viewed from the front of the machine any point on thecarrier would appear to travel in a continuous path, moving in the same direction as the bottles are advanced in the depressed position of the carrier.

Shaft is rotated from a suitably driven drive shaft 13 journaled in a housing 14 bolted upon head g and provided with a worm 15 meshing with a worm-wheel 16 on the shaft m.

17 is a cover plate arranged on the housing over worm-wheel 16.

A structure 18, carrying the hopper 19 for the crowns or other closures, the sealing device or devices 20 andthe closure conducting chute or chutes 21 leading from the hopper to the sealing device, is constructed and arranged as follows: Said structure is a substantially flat casting 22 including a vertical groove 23 at the back enabling it to be fitte-d over the block s. In an overhang 24 at the top of the groove 23`is swiveled a vertical screw 25 which extends downwardly into .5 and is tapped into the threaded portion 26 of a vertical bore 27 in the block s; Upon turning the spindle the structure 18 and the parts carried thereby may be adjusted vert-ically relatively to the carrier (to vary the extent to which the sealing heads descend with the carrier, according to the height of the bottles being operated upon); this adjustment may be effected by turning the horizontal spindle 28 journaled in the base portion 29 of the hopper, which is super- In this machine, the sealing device 20 may y l yield upwardly (as will appear) relatively to the structure 18 on each downward thrust of the latter to compensate for varying heights of bottles supposed to be of standard size, and the chute structure, Whose discharge end reaches into such proximity to the means 20 as properly to deliver the closures thereto, is caused to recede from said means 2O to allowthe yielding movement thereof. This, thus broadiy stated, is not new herein. According to the novel construction shogvn in Fig. 1, the chute structure 21 is pivoted at its upper end to the structure 18, the upper ends of its guideways being directly beneath corresponding downwardly discharging outlets 19 of the hopper 19. Said chute structure is further given the movement necessary to causevit to clear the yielding Asealing means by the following novel means: A rock-shaft 33 is journaled horizontally in structure 18 and in a forked arm 34 at one end thereof is pivoted the double notched hook 35 which normally rests vupon a stud 3.6 on the chute lstructure,receiv ing the same in one of its notches. (The chute is in the normal position when the stud is engaged in the inner notch; when the stud is engaged in the outer notch the chute occupies a position out of closure-transfer` ring relation to the sealing means-a temporary condition provided for independent operation of either the chute or the sealing means for any purpose.) A crank 37 fixed to the other end of the rock-shaft is pivot- Vally connected by the link 38 with a vertical rod 39 which slides in a guide 40 on structure 18 and is held by a grip-device 41 having ber or other friction-pieces 42 abutting opposite faces of the rod and opposing, frictionally, longitudinal movement of the rod in the lgrip-device. It being assumed that the grip-device is held against vertical moveinent, as the structure 18 rises and falls with the carrier the rock-shaft will be rocked and, through the hook 35, effect the desired inward and outward movement of the chutestructure, which thus approaches into closuretransferring relation to the sealing means on each inward movement and adequately clears the same on each outward movement. Vertical movement of the grip device is prevented by attaching it to some part of the machine having no such movement, for instance, lever 8, the connection being the toggle 43 or other coupling which will compensate for the variations in distance which the grip-device in oscillating assumes with respect to said part.

The frictional character of the hold of the grip-device on the rod allows a compensating adjustment of the rod when the structure 18 is adjusted, accomplished by providing the rod with studs 44, one above and the other below the guide 40, one of which the guideV will strike upon ther adjustment of structure 18 (or its first full up and down strokethereafter) to reset the rod either up or down in the grip device. The rod 39 may terminate at its upper end in the rack 39 meshing with a pinion 45 on a shaft 46 wherefrom the mechanism 47 for agitating and effecting the proper delivery of the closures in the hopper is operated.

The structure 18 has two vertical bores 48 into each of which is fitted a vertically movable stem 49 having an opening 50 at the front to admit the closures beneath its throat or sealing device 51, said stem being normally held (down) against a shoulder 52 by a vspring-pressed plunger 53;` a rocking detent 54 is normally held by the plunger against a shoulder 55, but when the stem is forced down over the bottle mouth (which supports the lunger against downward movement at this time) and so depresses the detent below the shoulder 56 on the plunger, the detent rocks out of locking engagement with shoulder 55, allowing the stem to recede into the structure 18, the parts returning to their normal positions under the action of the plungerspring as soon as said structure again rises. This sealing means, which by yielding compensates for varying heights of bottles supposed to be of standard size, is not claimed herein, having been already claimed in another copending application liled by me.

The operation, briefly recapitulating, is as follows: As the bottles, dellvered to the turret, are advanced thereby in a continuous procession in front of the machine, the carrier r rises and falls and oscillates on the pillar b, so that in each cycle it brings the sealing means into sealing engagement with two of the bottles, advances with the bottles,

laterally, and then rises to clear the sealing means fromthem, on the next cycle performing the same series of operations with respect to the next two bottles. On each rise, the chute structure is swung into closure-transferring relation to the sealing means, into each of which a closure is allowed to be delivered by the pressure of those behind it as soon as a detent 57 (normally holding back the train of closures) is swung, by engaging the' sealing means, out of checking position.

The construction is obviously greatly simplified and the reliability and eiiiciency of the mach-ine increased by making the closureatixing means and the means for supplying closures thereto parts of one organism having -container-assembling movement toward the :cation Serial Number 716,828 filed August Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In combination, a frame including a base and a stationary illar extending upwardly from and detac ably secured to the base and provided at its lower end with a step bearing, a vertical shaft journaled in said step-bearing at its lower end, a sealinghead-carrying structure movable vertically and also oscillatory around said shaft as an axis and guided by the pillar, means for transmitting oscillatory motion from said shaft to said structure and mea-ns for transmitting vertical movement from said shaft to said structure, substantially as described.

2. A machine for assembling the body and closure parts of containers including a frame, a carrier having th-rust movement in the frame and also movement transversely of its line of thrust movement, a supporting structure adjustable in the carrier longitudinally of said line, closure-feed-controlling means in said structure to be moved relatively thereto, and extensible actuating means for the first means supported by the frame against movement longitudinally of said line.

3. In combination, the frame, a sealing head, a support for the sealing head, a closure feeding device for the sealing head movable in the support 'relatively to the head, means to move the support in a definite path, said support, being adjustable in said path, and means to effect movement of said device in the sup ort on movement of the latter including a s ip-frietion-grip train operatively connecting said device and a fixed part of the frame.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' AMOS CALLESON. Witnesses: y

ANTONIO BUONO, FRANCIS H. Moers. 

